So the damned old fool has lugged dynamite all the way from Tucson, and after they get through he's going to stuff the powder behind some of those chimneys and plug Horse-Thief so damn full of rock that a goat can't get over," said Zurich indignantly.

"Now what do you think of that?
Most suspicious old idiot I ever did see!" "I call it good news.

That copper must be something extraordinary, or he'd never take such a precaution," said Eric.
Zurich answered as they saddled: "If we had followed them in there, we would have lost forty miles.

As it is, they gain twenty miles on us while we ride back round the north end of the mountain, besides an hour I lost hoofing it back." "I don't see that we've lost much," said Jim Scarboro.

"We've got their direction and our horses are fresh beside of theirs.